10 Movies Changes Influenced By The Fans' Feedback

There isn't a lot more that can be said about the cat-astrophic disaster that was this 2019 bomb. The idea of translating the unfilmable stage musical to the big screen was in itself a significant misjudgement, the horrifying visual design for the titular Cats a final nail in the coffin.

Director Tom Hooper and his creative team made the poor decision to largely ignore the torrid audience feedback to begin with, maintaining the overall hybrid half cat half human look that we were all having nightmares about for months. Hooper did however pick up on criticisms of the patchy CGI for the cats, most notably the human hands peculiarly popping out from the felines bodies.

In a sign of just how rushed the final product was, freshly edited final products were rushed to cinemas with 'added fur'. The problem was that the new changes were added ridiculously late, and meant that audiences viewed different products depending on where and when they watched the film.

In hindsight, the Cats producers needed to either take on board the initial negative feedback and make adjustments to the design, or just ignore it completely. Trying to make last second changes felt like reorganising the chairs on the Titanic- after the boat had sunk.